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...to this the country has continued to flourish. It is a singular feature in American life that at the beginning of this century, when the proprietor of... ...al use in the west of England, whence it is most prob- ably derived by the Americans. The latter draw a distinction between a sled, or sledge, and a s... ...construction used for temporary purposes in the new countries. Many of the American sleighs are elegant though the use of this mode of conveyance is m... ...uke and his cousin, being Pennsylvanians by birth, were not Yankees in the American sense of the word. 48 The Pioneers CHAPTER V “Nathaniel’s coat, s... ... nation as their grandfather The former was generally called, by the Anglo-Americans Iroquois, or the Six Nations, and sometimes Mingoes. Their appell... ...ioneers ists, Baptists, Universalists, or of the more numerous sect of the Presbyterians, was accidentally in the neighborhood, he was ordinarily invi...

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...expeditions; but of late whalers and sandal wood traders, both English and American, had been finding their way among them, and too often acting as ir... ...e the chief obstacle to the Mission. After describing an interview with an American captain, he continues:—’Reports are rife of a semi-legalised slave... ...his place, and judge for myself. ‘Tanna is in the hands of the Nova Scotia Presbyterians— Mr. Greddie, Inglis, and others; but the adjacent islands we... ...tion, a sugar plantation has not been found a very advanced school for the American or West Indian negro, and as a matter of fact, the islander who ha...

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...ack. “It is generally well known that out of the crews of Whaling vessels (American) few ever return in the ships on board of which they departed.” —C... ...water there be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied... ... great original— the Tyre of this Carthage;—the place where the first dead American whale was stranded. Where else but from Nan- tucket did those abor... ...th him would not avail; let him be, I say: and Heaven have mercy on us all—Presbyterians and Pagans alike—for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked ab... ...lagoes which had no chart, where no Cook or V ancouver had ever sailed. If American and European men-of-war now peacefully ride in once sav- age harbo... ...thousand men before the mast employed in the Ameri- can whale fishery, are Americans born, though pretty nearly all the officers are. Herein it is the...

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...of a far more formidable description than was commanded by the adventurous American. Time and circumstances change the character of nations and the fa... ...orrowful, scattered, and persecuted remnant, the pulpits were abandoned to Presbyterians, and he feared, to sectaries of every description. It should ... ...wing the Impossibility of any Composition between the Church and Puritans, Presbyterians, or Sectaries of any De- scription; illustrated from the Scri... ...re than he himself could have expected; but it is men- tioned of the North American Indians, when at the stake of torture, that on the least intermiss... ...‘They claim,’ said the clergyman, ‘to represent the more strict and severe Presbyterians, who in Charles Second’s and James Second’s days, refused to ... ...After the Revolution of 1688, and on some occasions when the spirit of the Presbyterians had been unusually animated against their opponents, the Epis... ...en went, to expiate their political heresies. But notwithstanding that the Presbyterians had the persecution in Charles II and his brother’s time to e...

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...there dwelt an old, melancholy, grizzled man of the name of Tari (Charlie) Coffin. He was a native of Oahu, in the Sandwich Islands; and had gone to s... ...ey of Hapaa, known to readers of Herman Melville under the grotesque misspell- ing of Hapar. There are but two writers who have touched the South Seas... ...candid, almost innocent, description of a Russian man-of-war at the Marquesas; consider the disgraceful history of missions in Hawaii itself, where (i... ...ssions in Hawaii itself, where (in the war of lust) the American mis- sionaries were once shelled by an English adventurer, and once raided and mishan... ... one of his colleagues, Kekela, a missionary in the great cannibal isle of Hiva-oa. It appears that shortly after a kidnapping visit from a Peruvian s... ...enemies; the church was once more rent asunder; and a new sect, the Kanitu, issued from the division. Since then Kanitus and Israelites, like the Came...

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...eir surroundings at the Goyle. And when letters arrived from Hubert at the American Vale Leston, asking questions requiring some research in books, ei... ... fleeting visit from Hubert Delrio, who had fin- ished his frescoes at the American Vale Leston, and came for a day or two to Mr. Flight’s. She had so... ...ecure his purse. But the people are very kind to us—North, or Scotch Irish Presbyterians, I think—for they don’t seem to know what to make of his bein... ...ng between Londonderry and Bristol. He, with another, who proved to be the American captain of the Afra, were at the gate of the hospital, where an am... ...th the resolute fortitude and unselfishness generally shown by English and Americans in the like circumstances. The sea was not in a dangerous state, ...

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...ge line of sea-board (stretching through twenty-four hundred miles) of the American United States; may enjoy fifty years for lei- surely repentance; a... ... well known upon that coast; and ‘faults’ may be a flash term for what the Americans call ‘notions.’ A part of the cargo it clearly is; and one is not... ...extravagant that the malice of those times could invent against either the Presbyterians or the Independents: and for this I suppose amongst other def... ...informer? A French- man, reader, —M. Simond; and though now by adoption an American citizen, yet still French in his heart and in all his prejudices. ...

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...th. Give a thing time; if it can succeed, it is a right thing. Look now at American Saxondom; and at that little Fact of the sailing of the Mayflower,... ...ain with. You must get out of that man’s way, or put him out of yours! The Presbyterians, in their de- spair, were still for believing Charles, though...

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...rived of his terrestrial enjoyments upon account of his religion. Not even Americans, subjected unto a Christian prince, are to be punished either in ... ...ny one sort of professors, all these things ought to be permit ted to the Presbyterians, Independents, Anabaptists, “Toleration” — John Locke 47 Arm...

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...two, I prefer the Popish.’ Boswell. ‘How so, Sir?’ Johnson. ‘Why, Sir, the Presbyterians have no church, no apostolical ordination.’ Boswell. ‘And do ... ...lical institution, I think it is dangerous to be without it. And, Sir, the Presbyterians have no public worship: they have no form of prayer in which ... ...iga- tion, by transmitting to me copies of two letters from Dr. Johnson to American gentlemen. On Saturday, April 3, the day after my arrival in Londo... ...as to the justice and wisdom of the conduct of Great-Britain to- wards the American colonies, while I at the same time requested that he would enable ... ...tled, Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress. He had long before indulged most unfavourable sentiments... ...not but be very obnoxious to Johnson, for he was not only a patriot but an American. He was afterwards minister from the United States at the court of... ...lancholy; and I mentioned to him a saying which somebody had related of an American savage, who, when an European was expatiating on all the advantage...

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... of age. He was religiously brought up, among the Anti-Burghers, a sect of Presbyterians; the clergy- man, the Rev. Mr. Bevridge, visiting the family ... ...re treated; they are scarcely regarded as being present. This trait in our American character has been frequently noticed by foreign travel- ers. One ...

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..., but that is because he has not ex amined into the matter. You have seen Presbyterians? Y.M. Many. O.M. How did they happen to be Presbyterians and ... ...rotestant; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Mohammedan; and so o... ...l beliefs and in their migrations out of them. Both of these men have been Presbyterians, Uni versalists, Methodists, Catholics—then Presbyterians ag... ...ns, the Russians, the Germans, the French, the English, the Spaniards, the Americans, the South Americans, the Japanese, the Chinese, the Hindus, the ... ...ow remember why. After that we made the English pegs fence in European and American history as well as English, and that answered very well. English a... ...good deal like everybody in general. By and by a hearty and healthy German American got in and opened up a frank and interesting and sympathetic conve... ...erhaps we shall get along better, and I shall stop calling Waggner, on the American What Is Man and Other Essays 140 plan, and thereafter call him Wa... ...mortem entertainments; it has taken a weary long time to persuade American Presbyterians to give up infant damna tion and try to bear it the best the...

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...in general the scum of the nation—were apt to comport themselves more like American buccaneers than like champions of any form of religion. La Sableri... ...g to the Scottish General Assembly, excepting that the perse- cuted French Presbyterians met in a different place every year. Delegated pastors there ...

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........................................................ 20 LETTER VI.—ON THE PRESBYTERIANS ................................................................ ...hat country. The first step he took was to enter into an alliance with his American neighbours, and this is the only treaty between those people and t... ...in his native country, went back to Penn- sylvania. His own people and the Americans received him with tears of joy, as though he had been a father wh... ...reason I do not trouble myself about them. 23 V oltaire LETTER VI.—ON THE PRESBYTERIANS T HE CHURCH OF ENGLAND is confined almost to the kingdom when... ...f the haughty Diogenes trampling under foot the pride of Plato. The Scotch Presbyterians are not very un- like that proud though tattered reasoner. Di... ..., for quarrels of as trifling a nature. The sects of the Episcopalians and Presbyterians quite dis- tracted these very serious heads for a time. But I...

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...nd finally developed into the University of Pennsylvania; and he founded an “American The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 3 Philosophical Society”... ...ned he received a place only second to that of Washington as the champion of American indepen The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 4 dence. He die... ...tton Mather in his church history of that country, entitled Magnalia Christi Americana, as ‘a godly, learned Englishman,” if I remember the words righ... ...hands. They wondered to see, from this and several instances, that the Water American, as they called me, was stronger than them selves, who drank st... ...company being increased to one hundred: this was the mother of all the North American subscription libraries, now so numer ous. It is become a great ... ...nciple was inculcated or enforc’d, their aim seeming to be rather to make us Presbyterians than good citizens. At length he took for his text that ver... ...Those, however, of our congregation, who considered themselves as ortho dox Presbyterians, disapprov’d his doctrine, and were join’d by most of the o... ... house. It was to he for the use of a congregation he had gathered among the Presbyterians, who were originally disciples of Mr. Whitefield. Unwilling...